WASHINGTON — The Army announced it had accelerated fielding of its security force assistance brigades (SFABs) to allow traditional brigade combat teams to focus on readiness for warfighting against near-peer threats.

“It is my assessment, and the assessment of the Secretary and the assessment of the Army staff, that we are likely to be involved in train, advise, and assist operations for many years to come,” said Gen. Mark Milley, Chief of Staff of the Army, during the 2017 AUSA Annual Meeting.

The Army staff determined that strategic-advisory missions are here to stay, and the SFABs improve the Army’s ad-hoc solutions, which relied heavily on conventionally organized brigade combat teams for the last 15 years.

During a Warrior’s Corner presentation at the AUSA meeting, Brig. Gen. Brian Mennes, Director of Force Management with the Army’s G-3/5/7, discussed the SFABs and their mission to train partner forces such as the Iraqi and Afghan armies.

“It’s a very important function,” he said.

The decision to accelerate fielding of SFABs was made this summer by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Gen. Milley.

To fill the SFABs, the Army is looking for high-performance Soldiers with a “propensity to learn.” Soldiers must score at least 240 on the Army Physical Fitness Test, with 80 in each category.

Commanders and leaders will have previously commanded and led similar BCT units at the same echelon, and enlisted advisors will be the rank of sergeant and above.

“All the Soldiers are volunteers, they are highly vetted,” Milley said. “They will approach standards similar to the Ranger Regiment.”

SFABs will field the best equipment, according to Mennes. The new units should receive the best weapons and night-observation devices, along with state-of-the-art communications equipment.

Mennes believes the SFAB units are essential for three reasons:
1. They will improve the Army’s ability to partner with other nations.
2. SFABs allow the Army to reduce, over time, the demand for combat advising from conventional brigade combat teams.
3. In a time of national emergency, SFABs will provide options for the Army to grow BCTs rapidly.

SFABs will be staffed initially with about 500-600 officers and NCOs, who will be selected based on qualifications and experience, along the lines of Special Operations.

A new school was stood up at Fort Benning earlier this year to train the SFAB Soldiers. The Military Advisor Training Academy offers unique instruction to the NCOs and officers, who learn about the social aspects and cultures of their partner nations, how to work with interpreters, and “the art of negotiation.”

“SFABs are not Special Forces,” Mennes stressed, but they do receive some comparable training, including language instruction.

These new units are an excellent opportunity for young officers and NCOs to expand their experience, he said. One company commander he met couldn’t speak more highly of the experience he gained while training Iraqi troops in Mosul earlier this year.

Eventually, the Army will have five active SFABs and one in the National Guard. Initially, two will focus on the Middle East, with the additional SFABs concentrating on the Pacific, Africa and possibly Europe.

SFABs are a permanent, additive force structure. They are being developed and deployed as a solution to an enduring Army requirement in support of the defense strategy. SFABs will deploy to combat zones and will likely sustain a higher deployment tempo than other conventional Army units.

“This is a large plank in our national defense strategy,” Mennes said.

According to Gen. Milley, “SFABs will be institutionalized into the Army and will not impact the service’s force structure.”

Pictured above: A Paratrooper from Task Force Red Falcon’s Company C,1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, and Iraqi Security Forces establish a security perimeter during the aerial response force exercise at Camp Taji Military Complex, Iraq, August 13, 2017. With the launch of Security Force Assistance Brigades, combat units will be able to focus more on operations, while SFABs will take on an advise and assist role to local forces. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Stephen James)

FORT MEADE, Md. — Soldiers today move about in and conduct combat operations from, among other things, the Stryker, the Bradley, or the Abrams tank. But the Army has started work now to determine what will take Soldiers to the fight in 2035 and beyond.

The Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia, provisionally stood up a cross-functional team, Aug. 1 that is focused on the development of the Army’s Next Generation of Combat Vehicles.

That team is provisionally chartered to improve the operational capabilities of the Army’s maneuver formations against a peer adversary.

The NGCV is expected to increase overall lethality, tactical mobility, strategic deployability and protection for Soldiers. It’s also expected to reduce logistical demands on the Army. All those necessary requirements are in line with expectations laid out by Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, according to sources at the MCOE.

While the hunt is now underway for the next tool to bring Soldiers to the fight, a final solution is still a way off.

“We are very early on in the process,” said Col. Gerald A. Boston, director of the NGCV provisional team. “We will be, on behalf of the Army, bringing multiple communities together and providing the continuity and unity of effort and purpose.”

WELL ROUNDED, ELUSIVE TARGET

“Is this vehicle an infantry fighting vehicle? Is this vehicle a replacement for the M1 Abrams? Will technology leap ahead to the point where we can do both with one platform?” Boston asked. “We don’t know.”

While Boston said he doesn’t have solid answers to those questions now, he confirmed that it would be his team’s job to find them.

“The purpose of this team is to help make those types of determinations and recommendations to senior leadership going forward,” he said.

The MCOE is assessing what are identified as the four plus one critical enabling technologies for use in the NGCV, according to John W. Miller, who serves as the deputy director of the NGCV provisional team:

— Directed Energy and Energetics: The potential to incorporate directed energy capabilities while better understanding the operational impacts of the flow and transformation of energy may provide increased lethality while reducing logistical burdens. Incorporating such advancements could mean both reduced logistical burdens to replace expended artillery, and platforms that have significantly improved operational capabilities at significantly smaller sizes.

— Power Generation and Management: The ability to generate sufficient power for all future platform needs is critical to increasing both platform and formation operational range while potentially reducing the use of fossil fuels.

— Advanced Armor Materiel Solutions: The reduction of combat vehicle weight and the potential increase in platform range and accessibility is greatly dependent on our ability to use new or different technology, rather than more and heavier armor which significantly increases platform weight.

— Vehicle Protection Suites: The best protection for crews and their vehicles comes from a combination of passive armor and active protection systems. The Army will work toward determining the correct ratio between armor types that will allow a decrease in vehicle size and weight while simultaneously improving mobility and protection levels against all applicable threats.

— Maneuver robotics and autonomous systems: The Army must continue the development and use of unmanned air and ground systems while creating combat platforms that can be either manned or unmanned based on the dictates of the commander’s tactical assessment.

While these four plus one critical enabling technologies are apparent now, there is no way to predict how they will ultimately shape the capabilities of the NGCV, Boston said.

“We are still in the process of determining what is in the realm of the possible,” Boston added.

A TEAM EFFORT

To help with the development of the NGCV, the team will need to rely on the expertise from the Army’s test and evaluation, research and development, and combat development communities, Boston said. This is in addition to the support provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, and the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.

Furthermore, the team would also like to leverage the experience of industry partners as early and often as possible, Miller added.

“There will need to be a community of effort moving forward,” said Boston, adding that Soldier feedback, at all levels, will be vital to the program’s success.

During the 2017 Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting and Exposition, Oct. 9-11 in Washington, D.C., Maj. Gen. Eric J. Wesley, Maneuver Center of Excellence commanding general, will further discuss the NGCV.

Pictured above: A U.S. Army paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team fires his M4 carbine at insurgents during a firefight June 30, 2012, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The vehicle he is using for cover is a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle. The Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Ga., is assembling cross-functional teams to design the next generation of combat vehicles for Soldiers in the field. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod)

The 1st SFAB will go through rigorous certifications in order to train, advise, assist, accompany and enable foreign partner security forces. Task Force 1-28 will become an integral part of the adviser team by enabling the 1st SFAB’s advisers to safely conduct their mission with foreign security partners in any theater the Army decides.

Destroyer Company, a heavy weapons unit, usually conducts mounted operations to provide convoy security for their sister companies in Task Force 1-28. This training event affords them the opportunity to brush up on their dismounted skills at the team level. Soldiers practiced with blank ammunition and progressed to using live ammunition during the training.

Soldiers throughout Task Force 1-28 are excited to work with the Army’s newest brigade and the unique challenges and experiences that come with it.

“This is a great opportunity for our Soldiers to get out in the field and shake off the dust on dismounted operations. We are getting to do some pretty great training over the next few months to prepare for future missions with the SFAB and everyone is excited about it,” said 1st Lt. Jack Rosenhammer, a platoon leader in Destroyer Company.

This training event is the first of many for Task Force 1-28. Companies from the task force will conduct shoot house ranges, mounted gunnery and more to continue to sharpen their skills in the coming months.

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — For hours he had walked in darkness, navigating his way through the uneven terrain of the Ozark wilderness. Before dawn, on a crisp late summer morning, Staff Sgt. Chad Hickey and 15 Drill Sergeant of the Year competitors had completed combat readiness exercises, performed drills and marched along rocky trails at the western edge of the Mark Twain National Forest.

The staff sergeant had pushed his body to its limits until he felt weary and exhausted. The day before, he and his competitors had gone 20 hours without sleep, while engaging in fitness exercises and performing drills that could save lives in combat.

As the native of LaGrange, Indiana, sat in the bleachers of Fort Leonard Wood’s Gammon Stadium Sept. 15 awaiting the Drill Sergeant of the Year contest results, he didn’t think he had much chance of winning.

When Hickey looked back over the competition last week, he said there were many other worthy competitors. One was Staff Sgt. Sean Jolin, an athletic, decorated drill instructor from Fort Benning, Georgia. Jolin had graduated from the Army’s ranger and sniper schools and served three tours in Afghanistan.

Another contestant, Sgt. 1st Class. James Calfa, had deployed in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom as a mortar gunner and radio operator. Corey Irwin, a drill sergeant from Fort Jackson, South Carolina, had experience as an M249 machine gunner, infantry carrier commander and as a sniper section leader.

“Honestly, it was kind of intimidating,” said Hickey, a 35-year-old senior drill sergeant at Leonard Wood. “There’s a lot of highly decorated people in there … a lot of infantry; a lot of combat arms, a lot of people that have more experience in the Army than I do.”

After a grueling 12-mile ruck march through the forest Friday morning, the competitors sat side by side at Gammon. Hickey looked at his competition and picked the two he thought would win. He didn’t think he was one of them.

Staff Sgt. Chad Hickey of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., was named the winner of the 2017 Drill Sergeant of the Year competition after competing four days of grueling events from Sept. 11-15 at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. (U.S. Army photo )

Then he heard the announcement on the intercom. Hickey was named the 2017 Drill Sergeant of the Year.

“I was very shocked,” said Hickey, a correctional specialist who has been a drill sergeant for 15 months. “There was a lot of great competitors out there this year … I thought I wasn’t doing that well in the competition.”

Staff Sgt. Bryan Ivery, one of the competition’s best athletes, earned Platoon Sergeant of the Year honors and the Tobias C. Meister physical fitness award and placed first among Advanced Individual Training platoon sergeants. Ivery tries to exercise at least twice a day — once with family and once with his Soldiers. But even he found the physical demands of the contest daunting.

“I think we have stiff competition here. You don’t end up here by chance,” Ivery said. “It’s definitely been trying — challenging physically and mentally as well.”

FORT LEONARD WOOD

Lying in the heart of Missouri’s central highlands, Fort Leonard Wood is home to the one of the Army’s basic combat training sites, along with the engineer, chemical and military police schools.

The rocky forests that fill much of the installation’s 63,000 acres and surrounding woodlands are home to more than 600 animal species.

“I knew how tough the terrain was and I knew the training areas that they have here,” said Laspe, who represented Leonard Wood in 2016. “You really don’t find this much expanse of a base with so many different training areas anywhere in the Army.”

Here Soldiers prepare for the most modern forms of warfare, taking updated training courses including operating and rigging recovery vehicles, or adapting to changing Army standards such as the new occupational physical assessment test, or OPAT, added to the Chemical Corps training.

EVOLVING CONTEST

Staff Sgt. Ryan Moldovan said he geared the Drill Sergeant of the Year contest to meet the changing needs and standards of the Army.

“The competition evolves just as the Army evolves,” said Moldovan, the 2016 reserve Drill Sergeant of the Year and 2017 planner. “The regulations are constantly changing with the times, with the way our enemies are changing and evolving. And the way we fight is changing and the way we shoot is changing. So we wanted to make sure the competition was completely up to date.”

Each of the 16 drill and platoon sergeants had done their part fighting America’s wars on hostile battlefronts. Some, like Jolin and Calfa, had battled in combat. Others, such as Staff Sgt. Justine Bottorff, had treated the wounded as a combat medic. They had seen the ugliness of war before they began training Soldiers, as many drill sergeants do.

But in Fort Leonard Wood’s rugged woodlands, they faced a different challenge — an increasingly physical and mental contest, that had evolved from a standard evaluation and PT course in the early 2000s, to a survivor skills and endurance course. Last year’s winners, Moldovan and Sgt. 1st Class Brandon Laspe, spent a year traveling to Army installations across the country, taking notes and watching which drills worked and which needed tinkering.

Among their priorities: create tests that push Soldiers to extreme limits by scheduling contrasting events after each other. Laspe and Moldovan broke up the land navigation course into two parts, one after a round-robin event, and scheduled the other at 2:30 a.m. The contestants, equipped with a compass and a map, had to scour through the night among the brush and pine for predetermined plot points.

Staff Sgt. Bryan Ivery of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, Calif., was one of the competition’s best athletes. Ivery earned Platoon Sergeant of the Year honors and the Tobias C. Meister physical fitness award and placed first among Advanced Individual Training platoon sergeants. Ivery tries to exercise at least twice a day — once with family and once with his Soldiers. But even he found the physical demands of the contest daunting. (U.S. Army photo by Amber K. Whittington)

“The land navigation course was very challenging and extremely unforgiving,” Ivery said. “It chewed up and spit us out. Some more than others.”

“Being able to operate in an exterior environment with unknown circumstances, rapidly changing conditions … and still maintain your composure and execute your mission,” Laspe said. “That’s what being a Soldier is all about. They proved out there they have what it takes and they are the ones we need training these Soldiers for the best possible Army of the future.”

During a surprise land obstacle challenge, the Soldiers again ran through the woods, navigating a winding course while remaining mindful of rocks and hills. The trail posed more challenges than the obstacles given to basic training recruits. After walking tight ropes, climbing over barricades and dodging obstacles, the Soldiers ruck marched to another surprise.

FINAL ‘FIGHT HOUSE’

Moldovan called the last event the “fight house,” where after complete exhaustion, a competitor must confront an enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Soldiers had to grapple with another Soldier in a base training gym.

“When you have nothing left in the gas tank,” Moldovan said, “you still have to be ready to fight and finish the fight, because your battle buddies are relying on you.”

The Army created the drill sergeant contest in the 1960s. Through the years, the competition has increasingly built greater standards. Command Sgt. Maj. Blaine Huston of the Army Reserve Command, who competed in the 2002 contest, said this year’s class of drill sergeants and platoon sergeants faced greater hurdles from the competition 15 years ago.

“The most physical thing that happened was the APFT,” Huston said of his competition. “And now you got drill sergeants out there having to have to hump a ruck down the avenue … They don’t know when it’s coming. Their mind never gets to shut off. Their bodies never get to fully recover and I don’t think they get to fully hydrate.”

This year the Army combined the Reserve Drill Sergeant and active-duty Drill Sergeant of the Year categories into one.

BOND AMONG DRILLS

On the contest’s third day, as the contestants tackled the Army’s new combat readiness test, Staff Sgt. David Shadmani reached the last few reps of the leg tuck exercise. Shadmani, a burly drill sergeant from the Drill Sergeant Academy at Fort Jackson, struggled to pull his knees to his elbows.

“C’mon, one more!” said Staff Sgt. Brittany Barfield, a platoon sergeant from Fort Eustis, Virginia, who stood nearby. “Give it all you got.”

Drill sergeants, like many who wear the uniform, share an unspoken bond, Ivory said. During the course of the competition, these drill and platoon sergeants encouraged each other, and gave each other tips. They shared ideas to bring back to share with their home units and Soldiers.

“Just seeing everyone else who’s here — how hard they work, how much they study, the leaders they are,” Bottorf said. “Just being around them makes you want to be better.”

Hickey said he learned much about where he could improve during the APFT, but his knowledge of battle drills and tactical communication, moving under fire, and other warrior tasks helped him rise to the top of the competition.

“I personally am going to take the lessons I’ve learned here and take it back to the trainees and my fellow drill sergeants,” Hickey said.

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — The drill sergeants barked orders. They called cadences and ran drills. But they were not molding civilians into Soldiers or introducing new recruits to their career fields. Instead, they were competing against each other.

A round-robin test was the first event in the annual Drill Sergeant of the Year competition running Sept. 12-15 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Sixteen of the Army’s best drill sergeants and Advanced Individual Training platoon sergeants gathered Tuesday morning to test their fitness and ability to lead Soldiers.

Hosted by the Army Training and Doctrine command, the competition will test drill sergeants on every facet of basic military training from weapons proficiency and tactical skills to leadership.

The contest will also measure stamina and endurance in a 12-mile ruck march and various physical fitness tests. The Soldiers will be graded from a range of activities from uniform inspections to history exams and group cadence instructions. Graders and evaluators will be stationed at each event.

Sgt. 1st Class Brandon Laspe, last year’s Platoon Sergeant of the Year and Staff Sgt. Ryan Moldovan, the 2016 Drill Sergeant winner from the Army Reserve, organized this year’s contest, which features competitors who boast a mix of athletic ability and tactical intelligence.

“These competitors you see today are the best of the best,” Laspe said. “They have already proven themselves time and time again.”

Among the competitors is Staff Sgt. Bryan Ivery, a South Carolina native who as an AIT platoon sergeant developed a battalion movement screening that decreased injuries by 90 percent in two months. Staff Sgt. Sean Jolin, of Fort Benning, Georgia, is a master fitness trainer and is a graduate of the Army’s Ranger school and sniper school.

“We have people who are in extremely good physical condition,” Moldovan said. “We have people who are very good at rucking. People who are intelligent. It’s going to be a tough competition.”

This year’s competition marked a change in that there will no longer be separate categories for active-duty Drill Sergeant of the Year and best reservist drill sergeant. Instead those categories have been combined into one, while the AIT Platoon Sergeant of the Year remains as the other category.

The contestants also will participate in a mystery event that Moldovan said will pose a unique challenge for the contestants.

“The No.1 thing is to let them be the best drill sergeants from across the Army, active/reserve and the best platoon sergeant across the Army,” Moldovan said. “And that person that is selected is going to embody the total Soldier complex.”

The competition will conclude with an awards ceremony Friday morning.

Pictured above: Staff Sgt. David Rodriguez, an AIT platoon sergeant from Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, prepares his M4 Carbine for a weapons qualification exercise during day one of the 2017 Drill Sergeant of the Year contest. Rodriguez is assigned to Alpha Company, 264th Medical Battalion. Contestants were tested in each facet of basic military training. The Drill Sergeant of the Year contest is held Sept. 12-15 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. (U.S. Army photo by Joe Lacdan)

WASHINGTON — Potential peer adversaries have been studying the way the U.S. fights for the last 20 or 30 years and their takeaway is this: “They don’t want to fight us in a close fight. They want to keep us at a distance,” said Maj. Gen. Eric J. Wesley.

Wesley, who serves as commander of the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia, spoke Sept. 7, during an Association of the United States Army-sponsored forum on aviation.

The American way of war for the last 20 years is, “we identify who our opponent will be. We take six months to stack metal in that theater. And when we’re ready, we go across the line and fight. Every one of our peers knows that and they want no part of that,” he explained.

So what they’ve done in terms of investments is “to create stand-offs that preclude our advantage in the close fight,” he said.

That includes “protective domes” that provide anti-access, area-denial or A2AD, he said.

They accomplish this through building a mass of long-range precision mass fires, a bulwark of electronic and cyber warfare offensive capabilities and other means, “all designed to keep us at a distance and keep us strategically out-positioned. That means we’ve got a massive problem.”

Furthermore, it is likely that one or several of five domains that Americans are used to dominating will be denied, be it air, ground, cyber, space or sea.

BREAKING INTO THE DOME

There are three things that can be done to defeat A2AD, Wesley said, none of which are currently being done.

The first, he said, is to remain forward deployed. But he said that’s a strategy that has been out of vogue since the end of the Cold War.

Another way is the be more predictive of potential conflict. “Read the tea leaves early and get deployed early,” he said.

A final way is to “fight our way into theater,” he said. “That’s a different way to fight than we’re used to.”

Wesley also offered several solutions that would likely be effective at the brigade level to help overcome adversary A2AD.

First and foremost, units must train to fight in cross-domain maneuver, he said. And secondly, brigades must be able to operate semi-independently, because communications with higher echelons will likely be cut off.

Fighting in cross-domain maneuver, he explained upends the traditional approach of air power enabling ground maneuver forces. In this new construct, ground or even cyber could enable air. This requires creative thinking in a non-linear fashion.

Operating semi-independently would mean putting mission command in the hands of junior leaders, relying on their judgment, flexibility and ability to read and understand the commander’s intent. A technology piece, such as renewable or smart energy, goes with this type of self-reliance as well, he said.

Others weighed in on how to break into the seemingly impenetrable A2AD dome that adversaries might erect.

Brig. Gen. John Evans, who serves as commander of U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command, said he favors the indigenous approach. He said that means relying on aviation and other assets of allies to free up the limited resources the U.S. might be able to bring to bear. “We can’t go it alone anymore,” he said.

Special Operations is especially good at situational awareness, he said, adding to Wesley’s comment about the need to “read the tea leaves.”

“We’re globally positioned and sense what’s going on throughout the world,” he said.

Evans was quick to point out that Special Ops was not designed to go it alone. Instead, they get in first and develop favorable conditions on the ground to allow conventional forces to move in.

“We’re also good at precision targeting,” he said, meaning being able to break down some of the enemy’s defenses that are in their dome.

Maj. Gen. Bill Gayler, who serves as commander of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence, said that he thinks the No. 1 priority for cracking the dome is long-range precision fires. “Without some complementary fires followed by short-range defense, we’re vulnerable. We need munitions that can travel much further.”

As for precision munitions delivered by air, he said he thinks smaller ones in greater quantities in an aircraft’s payload will be more effective than just a couple of big ones.

Also, Gayler said that lessons learned from the Russian invasion into Ukraine and Syria indicate how vulnerable troops can make themselves based on their communications signatures. Cellphone use, for instance, contributes to a strong signature that can allow enemy forces to more easily pinpoint their targets.

Evans concluded: “We’ve got to learn what the enemy is doing and adapt our ways to stay ahead of their decision cycle. Otherwise, future adversaries will confound us with what they are going to do.”

(Follow David Vergun on Twitter: @vergunARNEWS)

Pictured above: Maj. Gen. Eric J. Wesley, commander, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Georgia, said in the last 20 years, the Army has had the luxury of building up forward operating bases in anticipation of actions against the enemy. This luxury of buildup time will not be available against a peer adversary in a future war, he said, speaking at the Association of the United States Army’s Army Aviation Hot Topics forum, Sept. 7, 2017, at AUSA headquarters in Arlington, Va. Shown here, Staff Sgt. Eric Moenster from Salem, Mo., a truck driver with the distribution platoon, D Troop, 1st Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, provides a ground guide for a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle as it backs into a staging spot at Forward Operating Base Connolly Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Matson)

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